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OKAY, WE ALL KNOW that Christmas shouldn’t be about presents – it’s about family and appreciating the things we have in life, but getting a present is always nice.
Maybe it was that watch you have been hinting about all year? Maybe it was just something small, but thoughtful, or maybe someone popped the question?
On the other hand, there are always the gifts that you just have to grin about, say thank you, knowing well you will never use it again. Perhaps you’re wondering right now if the person actually knows you at all!
So, tell us in the comments section below, how did you fare this year?
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No point in creating jobs if there is a shortage of houses / apartments for employees to live in
@John Judd: What if the employees are Irish and are living here anyway?
@John Judd: No point in creating houses / apartments if there are no jobs for the people that live in them.
@Pat Bateman: that’s rare in these companies.
@John Judd: That’s the spirit John. Bah humbug.
@John Judd: You’re right John, all this job creation is desperate stuff altogether. It wouldn’t have happened in my day….
@John Judd: the Building of new houses has started . But can a normal family afford to buy one !
We must be getting close to full employment where anyone who wants a job can get one…..Don’t think any other European economy even Germany have our economic growth rates…..
@thewolf: What’s the breakdown of that welfare spending? Or are you simply moaning for the sake of it?
@Blants: so employees with lots of experience are unattractive to organisations? Wrong.
@John003: maybe so but not all these jobs are full 40 hr week numbers. An awful lot of 20-30 hr crap out there.
@thewolf: Feel free to get to your point then?
Meanwhile the rest of the country suffers on…plenty of land for accommodation here lads!!!
And by rest of the country I mean rural towns and villages. Not Cork, Limerick, Galway, etc.
@Grand: you are right – it’d be great if these companies would set up outside Dublin.
IDA don’t give grants to foreign companies setting up in Dublin any more. And still the companies want to set up in Dublin.
@Grand: And why would a company like Autodesk even contemplate setting up in a rural town or village?
These companies need to be close to population centres to attract workers.
@David Murphey: They should pick places like Athenry Co Galway.
@Larry Leary: “supported by” means the IDA will take the credit for attracting the company to Ireland. :-) IDA have been working on this one for several years.
But they won’t get any grants from IDA.
MSD have a facility in Swords that they are reopening, why would they head for the bog?
In any event, where would you find 350 workers in rural Ireland?
Finally:
“We selected Dublin because of its global business environment, talent, ability to support European languages, excellent long-term cost structure, and quality of life for employees,”
BOOM!!!
@Gary Foster: well if you’re commuting 45 mins to cross the city you might as well commute the same length of time outside the city. That’s why the government should be pushing big companies like this out the city even if it costs big money in the short term.
@Gary Foster: Balliragget
Where are all the employees going to live? Tents? Or 10 per house?
@Tom Sawyer: Are you assuming all the vacancies will be filled by people that dont already live in the region?
@Tom Sawyer: the new communes they are building for the millennial foreigners
@Tom Sawyer: they want us living in shared accommodation like students.
In 2013 570 people lost their jobs there, will they be rehired I wonder!
@Colette Kearns: I doubt 5 years later people are still out of work, waiting for the office to reopen.
@Colette Kearns: depends on how many are going to apply I suppose.
@Colette Kearns: You’re a great woman for the oul wondering Colette!
Just waiting for the unfortunate matching job losses news that the gov like to match this type of story up with!
@Adrian: you’ll be waiting so.
Shinners wishing job losses on the country, so they can be ‘right’. Sad.
@Tony Dowling: no, not wishing on any job losses, just highlighting the sneaky way the gov operate. Wouldn’t be surprised if there were job losses announced on friday, which would be drowned out in the news by another one of the govs big launches on the future of Ireland.
Be nice to have 550 jobs in the county that will be most impacted by Brexit but we don’t have many motorways, integrated public transport or railroads to entice them with (anyone spot a theme with my posts yet!). Heather Humphries TD when questioned in the Dail about such enterprising suggestions as encouraging the IDA to view more prospective sites in Donegal (2 in the last year!) was “we’ll being from Cavan I’m quite jealous of the business already in Donegal”…all which have been here ten years or more still leaving us with high employment rates (nit the companies faults..). That’s the calibre of ministers we have…
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